In May, fetal cardiology nurse Amy Appelhans Gubser became the first person to swim the 29.7-miles from the Golden Gate Bridge out to the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge. During the 17-hour swim, she called on her experience in nursing and on strength learned from her patients. "I've seen my patients withstand things that I don't know if I could have the courage or strength to do, and they do it with such grace and poise," she says. "I'm an average person and I can accomplish amazing things. People have depth within them, and if I can inspire them to tap into it, then I've won. It's like what I see with my patients at UCSF: There are profound situations to navigate and decisions they may need to make by going into that same deep place." https://lnkd.in/gP4P22pi
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A recent multi-center clinical trial led by Dr. Elliot Stieglitz and peers with the Children's Oncology Group has shown promising results for children with relapsed or chemotherapy-resistant JMML, a rare and aggressive form of leukemia. The study, published in Cancer Discovery, tested the efficacy of trametinib and found that the majority of the patients experienced clinical benefits. "This raises the tantalizing possibility that certain JMML patients could be treated with trametinib long-term and avoid a stem cell transplant entirely,” said Dr. Stieglitz, the study’s first author.
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Saint Francis and St. Mary’s hospitals and their associated outpatient clinics have joined UCSF Health! Please join us in extending a warm welcome to our new clinicians, staff and patients. Together, we can care for an even larger community of patients in San Francisco and the Bay Area. To learn more, visit https://lnkd.in/gu6XPEku.
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Registration is open for UCSF's Imaging Update 2024, on Kauai. This course encompasses a diverse review of conventional and advanced imaging of the chest, abdomen, head & neck, and musculoskeletal systems with a goal of enhance interpretation of imaging studies acquired in a wide range of common clinical scenarios. Register before August 20 for early bird rates!
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Registration is open for this year's Vascular Symposium in Napa. On Monday, August 12, don’t miss aspecial aortic symposium co-hosted by UCSF and Stanford Vascular Surgery and led by aortic co-directors, Dr. Jade Hiramoto and Dr. Jason Lee.
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Registration is open for Hearts in Sonoma - UCSF Update on Heart Failure Therapies. The course will feature up-to-date presentations on the evaluation and treatment of heart failure from initial diagnosis to advanced therapies.
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Following a diet that is low in sugar & rich in vitamins & minerals is linked with having a younger biological age at the cellular level, a UCSF/University of California, Berkeley study finds. It could mean that cutting sugar intake can help turn back the biological clock. “The diets we examined align with existing recommendations for preventing disease and promoting health, and they highlight the potency of antioxidant and anti-inflammatory nutrients in particular,” postdoctoral scholar at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health and first author of the study, Dorothy Chiu, says. “From a lifestyle medicine standpoint, it is empowering to see how heeding these recommendations may promote a younger cellular age relative to chronological age.” The study is one of the first to show a link between added sugar & epigenetic aging, & the first to examine this link in a heterogenous group of women – both Black and white – in midlife. https://ucsfh.org/3ykKLvQ
Healthy Diet with Less Sugar Is Linked to Younger Biological Age
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Dayna Long’s journey began as a medical student at UCSF, where she discovered her passion for pediatric care. Today, as a professor and pediatrician, she’s dedicated to serving Oakland’s community. At the core of her mission is the Bloom Clinic at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals. Dana co-founded the Black Baby Equity Clinic to tackle infant and maternal health disparities, offering tailored wraparound care for Black families. https://lnkd.in/gaTanrH4
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Dr. Shawn Hervey-Jumper performs neurosurgeries while his patients are awake in order to prevent severe brain damage—removing the kind of tumors once considered inoperable, and conducting "mind-boggling" research to understand why some patients recover better than others. Read the award-winning story: https://ucsfh.org/3ZU2pQ7
The Radical Compassion of Awake Brain Surgery
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The first federal-level guidelines for detecting and treating anal cancer precursor lesions in people with HIV have been issued in the U.S. The new recommendations were informed by the findings of a major UCSF-led study. UCSF's Dr. Joel Palefsky, a globally recognized expert on anal cancer, led the ANCHOR trial. Conducted at 25 clinical sites around the country, it found that routine screening for and removal of precancerous anal lesions could significantly reduce the risk of anal cancer, in much the way that cervical cancer is prevented in women. “Anal cancer is a very bad disease, and we now have the tools to significantly reduce the risk,” Dr. Palefsky says. “With this new recommendation, we hope that screening for anal cancer becomes a routine procedure in the care of people with HIV.” The recommendations were developed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)' Panel on the Prevention and Treatment of Opportunistic Infections in Adults and Adolescents with HIV, which is composed of experts in HIV care. The panel is a working group of the The National Institutes of Health Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Panel Issues First Guidelines to Prevent Anal Cancer in People With HIV
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